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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tacky
* Strange spellings to make a boyish or gender neutral name girly (Examples: Mackley, Ryleigh, Jaxyn, ).
* Words as names (Examples: Danger, Maverick, Precious)
* Using a culturally significant name when you're not from that culture or, even worse, what the namer thinks is a cultural name but is actually quite colonial. (Examples: Cohen, Denali, Egypt)
* For boys especially, taking the two-syllable name du jour and changing the leading consonant to come up with your own "unique" name.  (Examples: Kyler, Hayden/Kayden/Bayden/Rayden/Zayden/Dayden/....)

I think pretentious names usually comes down to being from a lower class and giving names that you think are upper class, but missing the mark somehow.  
* Place names associated with "class" (Example: London, Yale)
* Random nouns as names (Examples: Apple, Pilot)
* Names associated with WASPs of decades past (Examples: Sloane, Greir)

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I forgot literary.  To qualify, the name must be instantly identifiable as from a specific book.  You can have literary-tacky (Reneesme or however it's spelled) and literary-pretentious (Atticus).  If the name is from a YA or Fantasy novel written in the last 20 years, it's literary-tacky, and if it's from "literature", it's literary-pretentious.  Of course there are some names that have crossed from literary-tacky/pretentious into just being names (Wendy).
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What category is Bronte? [/quote]

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